Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.